Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani returned to his regularly scheduled show on Wednesday evening for the first time after being earlier this month.
The 81-year-old opened his conservative talk show, 鈥淭he Rudy Giuliani Show,鈥� with assurances to his audience that he was on the mend 鈥� though not yet fully recovered. In early May, Giuliani was in critical condition and placed on a ventilator at a hospital in Palm Beach, Florida.
鈥淚 have to thank everyone who sent me prayers and good will,” he said. He specifically mentioned his gratitude to his family, the medical staff that tended to him and U.S. President Donald Trump, who Giuliani said called him after he became sick.
鈥淚t feels good to be back,鈥� Giuliani said before cutting to his first break.
After Giuliani’s eight-year tenure as mayor, which was punctuated by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, the longtime Republican politician ran unsuccessfully for president in 2008 and eventually became a personal attorney and adviser to Trump.
Giuliani was a vocal proponent of the president鈥檚 allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden. Trump and his backers lost claiming fraud, and numerous , and of the election results turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error.
Two former Georgia election workers later won a $148 million defamation judgment against Giuliani. As they sought to collect the judgment, the former federal prosecutor was and this winter over the ownership of some of his assets.
Giuliani ultimately that let him keep his homes and various belongings, including prized World Series rings, in exchange for unspecified compensation and a promise to stop speaking ill of the ex-election workers.
Last year, Trump said he was awarding Giuliani the .
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